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Schuldt, Barbara A.; Totten, Jeff W.; Adrian, C. Mitchell; Cox, Susie S. – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2012
This exploratory study examines how society is adapting to an invasion of personal technology. Specifically, the paper reports a pretest study about incivility and the use of personal technology. Findings from this study are useful in providing initial views on demographic differences concerning perceptions about incivility and rudeness in the…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Age Differences
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Shepp, Mark S.; Jensen, Bruce F. – School Psychology Review, 1983
This study, an approach to controlling "acting out" behaviors of handicapped children in elementary schools, compares the effectiveness of an operant strategy and a cognitive strategy in modifying the behavior of a seven-year-old hyperactive boy. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Cognitive Structures
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Burks, Virginia Salzer; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Price, Joseph M.; Laird, Robert D. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Investigated the relationship between children's knowledge structures for peers and externalizing behavior problems. Evaluated initial aggression level in years 1, 6, and 9 of longitudinal study; evaluated social knowledge structures in year 6. Found that knowledge structures were related to children's concurrent externalizing behavior and…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Problems, Children, Cognitive Development
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Harrist, Amanda W.; Ainslie, Ricardo C. – Journal of Family Issues, 1998
The efficacy of a mediational model for predicting child behavior problems (N=45 five year olds) from marital discord measures was assessed. Indirect relations between marital discord and both social withdrawal and aggression in the child are discussed. Working models of parents' behaviors are found to guide the child's behavior. (EMK)
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Cognitive Structures
Jenkins, Jeanne E.; And Others – 1994
This paper reports the preliminary findings of a county-wide study of alcohol and other drug (AOD) behaviors and influences among 2,229 randomly selected students in grade 8, 10, and 12. The discussion focuses on behavioral, cognitive, and environmental predictors of AOD behaviors. The paper highlights a refined study of the influence of peers,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, At Risk Persons, Behavior Patterns
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Grusec, Joan M.; And Others – New Directions for Child Development, 1994
Advances an important new way to conceptualize and assess the causes of parental behavior by examining how internal working models influence parents' beliefs and behaviors. Suggests that a primary source of parents' feelings of self-efficacy with respect to child rearing, as well as their explanations for their children's misbehavior, is the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attribution Theory, Behavior Problems, Child Rearing
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Smetana, Judith G. – New Directions for Child Development, 1994
Introduces the articles in this journal issue, noting the burgeoning interest in the roots of parental beliefs, values, and goals. Highlights thematic continuities among the otherwise diverse research approaches presented, for example, synthesis of different theoretical perspectives of parent beliefs, or the context in which parental beliefs…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Attribution Theory, Behavior Problems